In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.